Posted by
Carl Stevens on Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:41:49 PM
“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it.” “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ - Barack Obama in Duryea, Pa., Sept. 2008
Everyone remembers these famous words spoken during the 2008 Presidential election campaign.
Since then, after the election, we’ve been told by his hand picked Attorney General, Eric Holder, that:
· Re-implementing the so-called “Assault Weapons Ban” will reduce crime along the U.S/Mexico border.
· That 90% of weapons found at crime scenes and in police raids in Mexico originated in the U.S.
Both of these claims have been de-bunked by federal government agencies.
· The Dept. of Justice found that the failed “Assault Weapons Ban” did nothing to lower crime rates in its 10 year run. Nor did we experience the "blood running in the streets" that was predicted when it expired.
· The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stated the day the “90%” claim was made that the number of weapons found in Mexico that came from the U.S. was greatly exaggerated. Not to mention that weapons confiscated in Mexico also include grenades, rocket launchers, and other explosive ordinance, every single one of which is already illegal to sell to the general public in the U.S., let alone Mexico.
This is a disturbing start for an administration that campaigned on the slogan “I’m not going to take away your guns.” - Barack Obama in Duryea, Pa., Sept. 2008
Even more distressing is a piece of proposed legislation introduced into the House of Representatives on April 29, 2009.
This proposed legislation is H.R. 2159 - Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009. The purpose of this legislation is stated:
“To increase public safety by permitting the Attorney General to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of firearms or explosives licenses to a known or suspected dangerous terrorist.”
Did you catch that?
Denying firearms etc. to “suspected” terrorists.
This may have gone unnoticed if the Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary, another one of Obama’s hand picks-Janet Napolitano, hadn’t recently released a particular memo to law enforcement personnel that listed people to watch out for. This memo stated that if you are concerned about illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, the loss of U.S. sovereignty, and abortion that you were a potential “Right Wing Extremist” and could be “suspected” of being a terrorist. This sounds like a watch list for the average, everyday, American taxpayer. Since when is holding a conservative political belief a crime?
If this proposed legislation is enacted into law, Attorney General Holder-who is already actively working to curb our Constitutional,
2nd Amendment rights, only has to “suspect” that you are a threat to national security and can deny you access to firearm purchases and, potentially, arms that you already own; i.e. confiscation. What about due process of the law? What happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
In this proposed legislation is a provision to appeal the denial, to see the evidence against you. But…all Attorney General Holder has to state is that revealing said evidence could be detrimental to national security - access denied. Supposedly there is a provision for that too but my guess is that you'd have a better chance pounding sand.
Some of you may think that this is a petty argument, in which the Attorney General wouldn’t stoop to such underhanded tactics, but I ask you to consider this:
When Eric Holder was Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration, the national instant check system (NICS), that is necessary for firearm purchases through a Federal Firearm Licensed (FFL) dealer, was under Holders direct control. From when it "went live" in 1998 until January 2001, the NICS system was routinely off line or in a state of malfunction, effectively precluding FFL dealers from completing firearm sales transactions. With the change of administration in 2001, the NICS program was suddenly as reliable as a ticking clock. Now this may fall under the category of hearsay, but I have noticed a couple FFL dealers experiencing “software issues” with NICS since January of this year. Is all this a coincidence? Maybe…maybe not, but it sure has suspicious timing.
All of this seems to point to an administration that said anything to ensure that it was elected into office. But, once in office, they “forgot” everything they campaigned on and go on to push their own agenda, either openly- Holders intentions of reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban in January, or clandestinely- H.R. 2159 linked with Napolitano’s “Right Wing Extremist” memo.
Be afraid America, be very afraid.